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Your Idea

Jennifred Jones

Ideas! Ideas! Ideas! We all have ideas. They’re like little brainstorms happening inside our heads!

Some are mere passing rain clouds while others just might have something to them. Examine the passing clouds and see if their waters hold any weight! Yours might be the next helpful idea to get you through. Or maybe it’s for your company or family situation that will move you forward.

I have many, many ideas about so many things and sometimes voicing them as ‘some crazy idea of mine’…yet is it always crazy? Maybe it was just what I needed!!!

‘Nah, they won’t be interested. That wouldn’t work. It’s too far out! How could I do that? Could it really happen?’…and we discredit the idea rather than think about it more… Another good idea thrown to the wind!

Everything done and made began as somebody’s ‘big idea’.

Like what???

  • Every painting you see
  • Every house built
  • Every sink or stove or washing machine or blender or coffee pot!
  • Every wallpaper, piece of fabric, paint color
  • Every loaf of bread, spaghetti, or sauce
  • Even the different types of plants and flowers that were crossbred to make a different color

You name it, somebody made it! But it began with their idea first!

Think again. You’ve got a life full of creations if you begin with your good ideas and carry through.

Don’t hold yourself back. Just get started and keep moving!

Now, about that idea I was thinking…

Men!

Jennifred Jones

Today we’re going to talk about the men!

Why? ‘You are a woman!’ (I am, a woman- the writer)

We need men! Men out there, we need you!! Every one of you!!!

Without men, there would be no women. (and without women there would be no men)

But today is about our men! Amen to that!

We are all strong and have good ideas and capabilities, but each of our two genders are unique. Men have a different physique, a different mindset, way of thinking, planning, doing. They have a determination to see things through to the finish at all costs – even their own lives if need be. They are the protectors of their family and community. They know how to lead, guide, fight, hold steady and gently encourage, or stand strong with an iron will. They are good at reasoning together and coming to workable solutions.

‘Lady, I don’t know these men! Do they exist? Could I be one?’ If you’re a man, then yes! And be a good one. No shame in being a man. We need you to stand unashamedly strong!

I said it and I meant it. I am a mature woman and grandmother with lots of brothers, uncles, sons, friends in my life and I happen to like men. They are funny, goofy at times, strong, loving, stern, handsome, direct, caring, sometimes quiet, but they are men! And I thank God for them!

None of us are perfect – men or women. But we are trying to aim at being better!

Let’s not degrade ourselves or others or let them degrade us.

Be the man God made you to be. He will bless you. He will help you. He will strengthen you. He will encourage you and help you move ahead in your life. He is for you!

And so am I!

God bless every one of you men reading this today. Be encouraged!

The Need to Be Needed!

Jennifred Jones

Some may think it’s selfish to feel needed.

I believe it’s part of our drive for purpose. We want to know something we did mattered in someone else’s life…that we were noticed. (I also realize it can become backwards and cause people problems, dependencies etc. etc. etc.)

But! What I’m getting at is this need to make something of value to someone else. It’s like a gift that no one else could or did make and they are happy to receive it. They like it and they like you for giving it to them. That makes us happy. That’s how it’s supposed to be.

People need what we can provide for them in a good honest way!

I want to raise this idea up a notch. In our relation to God, it’s different. He made us, but he doesn’t need us. He wants us. He doesn’t need anything of ours. It’s all his anyway. But we’re his kids and like any earthly father, he wants us. That’s a big difference between the need and the want. The want comes from choice. The need comes from a necessity.

We not only need to be needed, but we want to be wanted.

God wants us. Let’s want him back.